Workshop: Opportunities and Challenges in Social Neuroscience

人类依赖于各种社会结构，从夫妻和家庭到群体、社区和文化。这些结构很可能与支持它们的神经、神经内分泌、细胞和遗传机制携手进化，因为随之而来的社会行为帮助这些有机体生存、繁殖和照顾后代的时间足够长，以至于它们也能繁殖。社会神经科学是一个在过去二十年中发展起来的研究领域，主要研究这些神经、神经内分泌、细胞和遗传机制以及与它们交互的社会结构、因素和过程。该奖项为参加即将举行的社会神经科学会议的研究生和博士后提供资助，该会议将汇集来自美国，欧洲和亚洲的科学家，主题为：1)社会认知的成像，病变和行为研究；2)亲和行为的神经生物学；3)社会知觉；4)社会过程的神经基础和神经体现；5)实时社会互动的神经基础。参加本次会议的初级研究人员将接触到社会神经科学的前沿研究，并将在特别的海报会议上展示他们自己的工作。会议的成果将被编辑成一卷，提交给麻省理工学院出版社的社会神经科学丛书。

Humans depend on social structures that range from dyads and families to groups, communities, and cultures. These structures likely evolved hand in hand with the neural, neuroendocrine, cellular, and genetic mechanisms that support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long rnough that they too reproduced. Social neuroscience is a field of research that has grown over the past two decades to investigate these neural, neuroendocrine, cellular, and genetic mechanisms and the social structures, factors, and processes with which they interface.This award provides NSF funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend an upcoming conference on Social Neuroscience that will bring together scientists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, speaking on the topics 1) Imaging, lesion, and behavioral studies of social cognition; 2) Neurobiology of affiliative behavior; 3) Social perception; 4) Neural bases and neuro-embodiment of social processes; and 5) Neural bases of real-time social interactions. The junior investigators funded to attend this conference will be exposed to cutting edge research in social neuroscience and will have their own work showcased during a special poster session. The product of the conference will be an edited volume submitted to MIT Press for the Social Neuroscience Book Series.